Introduction: In the present era, the rapid diagnosis of infectious disease is becoming a challenge to the medical field. At this setup, the most common infectious diseases are considered for rapid, accurate diagnosis. Salmonella is one of the most common needed infectious agents to be identified as early as possible. Aim: To identify a specific and sensitive technique for early diagnosis of en...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of chronic typhoidal salmonellae amongst food vendors in Kumasi Ghana. DESIGN A prospective study. SETTING Sitting and itinerant food vendors in Kumasi. METHODS Screening of 258 (230 females of 28 males) healthy food vendors for Salmonella typhi, and S. paratyphi A, B, and C, using stool culture, the widal test, and standard microbiological identifica...

Enteric fever still remains a cause of significant morbidity and mortality, particularly in children. In countries with poor resources and inadequate access to basic health care system, like ours, where widespread antibiotic availability and prescribing leads to low sensitivity of blood cultures and where bone marrow cultures are difficult to perform, early detection of suggestive clinical feat...

possibility of malaria, five grains of quinine were administered hypodermically and Liquor Arsenicalisi prescribed in mixture. 28th August.?This is the sixteemh day of the fever. The temperature is now irregularly intermittent in type. The blood serum was again sent to Western Command Laboratory and the report received was? "Negative Widal in 1?40 dilution with B. typhosus." 6th September.?He h...

Inserm, UMR-S 1144, 75006 Paris, France Service de psychiatrie adulte, pôle neurosciences, groupe hospitalier Saint-Louis-Lariboisière-Fernand Widal, AP–HP, 200, rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis, 5475 Paris cedex 10, France UMR-S 1144, université Paris Descartes, 75006 Paris, France UMR-S 1144, université Paris Diderot, 75013 Paris, France Fondation FondaMental, 94000 Créteil, France Inserm U 1171, ...

isolate was sent for confirmation and serotyping to National Salmonella and Escherichia reference centre, Kasuali, Himachal Pradesh, India. It was identified as S.typhimurim 4, 5 12:i:1,2. The isolate was sensitive to ciprofloxacin and norfloxacin with resistance to third generation cephalosporins, aminoglycosides, ampicillin, chloramphenicol and co-trimonazole. No Mycobacterium or fungus was i...

Received December 12, 2012; accepted December 19, 2012. From the Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL (J.F.M.); and Service de Genetique Neuro-Vasculaire, AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Lariboisiere-Fernand-Widal and INSERM UMR-S740, Paris, France (E.T.-L.). Correspondence to James F. Meschia, MD, Chair, Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, 4500 San Pablo Rd, Jacksonville, FL 3222...